TY - BOOK AU - Ernst,Carl W. TI - How to read the Qurʼan: a new guide, with select translations SN - 9780807869079 AV - BP130 .E76 2011eb U1 - 297.1/2261 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Qurʼan KW - Introductions KW - Reading KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Coran KW - Lecture KW - Critique, interprétation, etc KW - fast KW - Koran KW - gnd KW - idszbz KW - sears KW - Criticism KW - Qurʼan as literature KW - Coran (Littérature) KW - RELIGION KW - Islam KW - Koran & Sacred Writings KW - bisacsh KW - Lesart KW - Anleitung KW - Islamic literature KW - Electronic books N1 - "This book was published with the assistance of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The problem of reading the Quran -- The history and form of the Quran and the practices of reading -- Early Meccan suras -- Middle and later Meccan suras -- Medinan suras -- Toward a literary reading of the Quran N2 - This book offers a compact introduction and reader's guide for anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Ernst offers a nontheological approach that treats the Qur'an as a historical text that unfolded over time, in dialogue with its audience, during the career of the Prophet Muhammad UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=365235 ER -